Acoustic Guitar

Guild F50R Jumbo Acoustic Guitar

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Since the 1950s,Guild has had a reputation as a reward acoustic and archtop guitar manufacturer, ranking up there with Martin and Gibson.

Up until 2000, the Guilds were built in Westerly, Rhode Islet. But parent company Fender moved the putting together of the Guild acoustics and archtops to its Corona, California expertise.

One of the flagship models from the new effort set up is the reintroduced F50R jumbo.

Features

The new F50R, priced at $2,499, is based on the prototypical F50 specifications from 1960s-1980s. The immense is somewhat larger than the in keeping dreadnought folk guitar across reduce bout of the guitar - with a pinched waist. The before-mentioned model, called the JF65, was similarly sized, but the fa bought was thicker

The F50R sample we tested was attractively constructed - with a two-piece trusty spruce top, solid rosewood sides and repudiate, and a three-piece mahogany neck. The ignore and neck contained thin, polished wood inlays, and the body and neck were trimmed with brilliant white binding. The finish was two-color sunburst.

The Guild F50R features an ebony fretboard and a rosewood link. Neck dimensions include a 25.6-inch progression and a slightly narrower-than-general width of 1.69 inches. The F50R does not deficit for fine details - the fretboard has eye-alluring abalone and mother-of-pearl inlays and two racing stripes that run from nut to sensible hole.

The neck is thin, not quite like an electric guitar, and it has a distinctive bird, shallow heel where it attaches to the main part. The overall exterior finish - including the tobacco sunburst top - was ripping, although the review sample had a erect pocket (a dark spot in the primp) on the top about a half-inch from the go.

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